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I love the fact that after sometime you get to the point zombies arent a big deal you kinda let your guard down. I have an experience like this. I played in a world for around 2 IRL weeks. I made a good base(in the little restaurant inside the gold course, near the pond), got 2 cars, good gear ,sustainable food, had near 100% protection, mastered crygenic winter, all that. The only thing left was to find a generator magazine so I can preserve my food while I went to Lousville. So I went looking, Went to all the towns, killed a shit tone of zomboids, found a really nice jeep. And after all that do you know how I died - I was fighting 2 zomboids no more than 200 metres from my base, and got bitten in the neck. The only place not even "the only cure" mod can fix. So I went home, crafted some molotovs, set the base on fire and shot myself with a shotgun. And honestly it felt good. It felt like a, althouh sad, a conclusion to my character's story. He finally found peace and went on his own terms.

Most zombie games miss out on the opportunity to explore the setting in which zombies are a constant looming danger and a new natural element to settle with rather than being a centre of the whole thing

idk what it is but just knowing one mistake could kill you is what sells zomboid for me. it’s always a battle to stay alive

project zomboid is the zombie game that makes you realize a zombie apocalypse might not actually be that fun...

HEY!!! AS A DEAD SPACE FAN I HATE HOW IN THE BEGINNING YOU LABELED DEAD SPACE AS A ZOMBIE GAME!!!! THE NECROMORPHS AREN'T ZOMBIES THEY ARE ALIENS!!!!1!!11!!11!!111

Personally I think zomboid needs a customizable "big damn hoard" option for sandbox that lets you set a particular date when a massive flood of zombies will move through the map like a tidal wave. You could set this hoard to happen after a week, or happen after a year, when it happens doesn't really matter, but it would add a much needed climax to the game. A good sense of finality too. I think some mods already do this, but imo it should just be in vanilla.

Death isn’t entirely permadeath in this game. You can respawn as a new character and (if you’re lucky) recover your loot. With the help of a mod, you can recover skills by making a “skill journal”.

“Remember to press q for the antidote”

There are experiences in pz that there is in no other game. In a cdda run, I survived the whole winter, I found a functioning car after 5 months. Then the car got stuck in a horde and I barely escaped my death by sacrificing my car. Then I raided a small town, to find a generator magazine, and I set up a temporary camp in that city. when I raided the bookstore, sneaking through multiple hordes, I got back to my base with the magazine, but the zombies were banging on my door. I jumped out a second floor window after I packed my stuff and I headed back to my base. These things are straight up out of a movie. And the fact that there is no narrative that forces these events, it's only you trying to survive, it's amazing.

This is also THE most customisable zombie experience out there, literally everything can be modified to suit the kind of experience you want. Want to have running zombies but don't like the constant difficulty spikes of them swarming you? Set them so only run at night, I did, it went fine until I got stuck in a Police Station at 3am. Or maybe a more George A. Romero style with the slowest zombies, set to high population. You set it to what you want, and if it's too easy, you can change that to suit you. And all that is before you even consider adding mods.

id also add that it isnt just the outliner, but the most realistic of them all too i would even go so far as to call it a zombie simulator

I love this game. The fact that restarting in the same world just brings a new character in and you can go find your last character and get all your stuff back is awesome. If you start a decent base that can get past the 30 day water/electrical cutoff, you can stay in that world indefinitely. Horde all the books and skill buffs and keep them at your base. The best place for a base early on is the Fire Station in Rosewood. You'll start relatively close to it, and it's already fortified with everything you need for a base for the first 30 days. I wouldn't even search very far during the first 30 days. Just work on your skills, clear out the surrounding neighborhoods and loot the houses and police station. Guns are a trap until later on. Start as a lumberjack and B line to the fire station. The best armor and weapon is in there, guaranteed (Fire Fighter outfit, and Fire Axe.) you will decimate zombies, early on, with the Axe since your axe skill starts high. If you really want to use guns early, start as military or police. This game is so expansive. You will place for 50+ hours before you survive for an entire week. If you can last a month before you've sunk over 100 hours into the game, you are a natural.

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Originally, I didn’t think I would like the difficulty. Or how the camera is placed. And I especially didn’t think I would like how when you die, you loose everything. But I actually love this game so much. I recommend it to everyone who gets a change to play it

As a PZ player, I just wanna say just wait until the npc update comes out bro. I mean the game is still in progress and it's so much fun. My tips for newbies are don't rush anything on ur first spawn, just learn things and u will be able to upgrade most of ur skills before day 20/30 bcz on those days, the zombie will reach its peak. Note: after 2/3 months the grass/trees will start to take over the street which makes it harder for u to travel with a car so good luck sir.

i've never played zomboid specifically, but the despair and realism with zombies is why i love cataclysm: dark days ahead so much. great video!

Not enough people are talking about Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead. It's like Project Zomboid but feature complete. It has NPCs. It's even the game that inspired Zomboid. Though the graphics are like Dwarf Fortress.

And then you have Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, where you can make it either a really serious game by enabling only the realistic modules and disabling all the fantasy and futuristic ones, or go all in and enable them for an experience that's initially somewhat serious, but slowly gets goofier as you get stronger with mutations and cybernetics, OR you can get even CRAZIER, disable creation point limits, enable the debug mode and create a god character in the Character Creation menu.

15:42 As someone who has several thousands of hours put into the game, I'd argue that the game has ways of humbling overconfidence real quick. Getting caught in a migration and 1k rounds of ammo not being enough to make an opening for example. Even worse if they're sprinters! Sprinter hiding behind a corner in a building with narrow corridors, yup that's a game ender too lol. All it takes is a bite

>outlier of zombie games Catacylsm: Dark Days Ahead exists, idk

Now play Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, the most complicated/realistic post-apocalyptic survival game ever made.

The only other game other than Project Zomboid that really conveys the threat of a constantly advancing, slow moving horde of Undead is No More Room In Hell. They're not so difficult one at a time when you know they're there but it only takes one sneaking up from behind or getting unlucky in a fight that spells doom for you, all it can take is one bite.

As a zomboid fan, ofc i loved this. I'm more glad you showed the reality of the learning curve haha, great things come to those with patience. Good luck survivors, you can do it 💪

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When I found this game eight years ago I knew that it had the potential to be an amazing game. It looked so different back then, the developers are truly dedicated to improving this game in every way and I can't wait to see what else they add in the future.

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I will say, as much as this game emphasizes the idea that you WILL die, and that you are supposed to die, you don't have to. I was really put off by this when I first played, I don't like the idea of roguelikes because I like building up to things and not losing them. A thing a lot of people don't mention though is that, when you die, yes that character will die and you'll lose your skills, but you can respawn in that same world as a different character. This means you can go back and find your old base and your zombified self and get your stuff back. While it may be tedious to get back your skills, you were still working towards something that isn't lost when you die. Also, you can respawn as a character skilled in areas your previous character was useless in. If your previous character was a monster at clearing zombies, you found a good base location and cleared it out but died in the end, your next character can be a carpenter who will be able to fortify and build up the cleared area, and so on. There are also mods that allow you to pass on skills, in addition to mods for just about anything else you can imagine, so don't be put off by the seemingly brutal and unforgiving nature, yes it's hard but once you die a few times you learn the ropes quite quickly. It also helps to watch other people play, and it is customizable enough that you can make it easy when you first start so you have a chance to learn. I highly recommend this game.

My favorite thing about zomboid is that as you play you create your own story from the situations the game puts you in. It’s almost like you’re playing a walking dead esque show with you and your friends as the characters.

I don't even care about having a story, I just want some sort of an endgame! Like it sucks surviving for several dozen hours, maxing out my skills, building up a massive arsenal of food, drink, meds, and weapons, and building up several apocalypse vehicles... Only to have literally nothing to do or any point in continuing... Mods help but we need some sort of an endgame, hell even simple fetch quests would be better then nothing.

Stumbled on this video by accident Funny enough the enormous map you show at 5:31 isn't the vanilla map. That's and old screenshot of my map project which took me 3 years to make. Either way, love the videos you got a new sub :)

I definitely agree with this vid. I’ve put 200 hrs into project zomboid and that’s the most I’ve had in any game. There’s so many different things to learn and every new run is an opportunity to implement new strategies and new finds in the gigantic map.

I build my base very close to downtown louisville, it's above the trainstation in a wahrehouse. I am now on day 25. I have killed 600 zomboids.

A good mod to get that fixes late game is horde night. mods that essentially spawn a massive hoard that converge on your location. You can customize the amount and how often the horde night happens. It now means there is purpose to build a base, build defenses, and stock up on supplies. Also the next major update for PZ is going to fix some of those issues supposedly.

I picked this game up on release as a kid and played on an ancient Sony Vaio. I'm still playing it all these years later and it still hasn't gotten old for me.

Yeahhh i kindda feel you with unturned Time we'll never get back, ah yes.

I’m pretty sure if you’re up for a small challenge. In the multiplayer host settings when creating the world there is now a peak day and a peak day multiplier in which zombies will increase by the multiplier you set it as. So you can set a day for pure insanity or just make the whole experience different by making each zombie have random traits of their own. Even making them bound to one place by changing them to urban focused zombies with no migration pattern. Hosts have a lot of power when doing so and it’s really fun to play around with when you get to know what every setting means.

What a great thumbnail and video man! Always a fan

Your way of narration is honestly so nice. keep it up

my "win" conditions are: -survived at least one year -has a compaund that can not be easily breached by zomboids -self sufficient: can survive without need for looting the town -has a reliable source of food and drinkable water -does not use electricity (realisticaly all gas would expire after 8-12 moths, same goes for lighter fluid) so prepareing to survive without is a neccesity

"This is how you died" There's no happy ending :(

once you understand the game it gets so much better, im glad i gave it a second chance after putting it down for thinking it was hard and bland, definitely one of the best zombie games

definitely worth checking out Cataclysm, it was a huge inspiration for it

I discovered project zomboid in like late January 2022, through coming across a story roleplay youtube video of the game and I watched it thinking it's just an another ordinary zombie survival video game. Since then, my life got a lot easier, when it comes to knowing what is a true zombie survival game, and how a real zombie apocalypse would look like (at least I think it's the closest to how it would actually look like). Good video btw, keep it up man.

I have over 500 hours on PZ and I've found the replayability come from the fact that i always try to push to survive longer in difficult situations, like for example next thing in the list is to use a mod that makes winter extremely cold and harsh, and play with sprinters and see how long I'd survive, then there are the scenarios that are ever expanding with the mods, then there is the challenge of making a caharacter based on your real life self and see how long you would survive in that situation. It's truly a sandbox because it goes as far and long as your imagination.

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One thing I think you should've mentioned is that the game is still being semi-regularly updated with new content and major changes, so parts of the video may become outdated.

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One of the few youtubers who actually made me laugh with the script, editing, and refrences :) Thanks

4:00 As I medical student… I wish I knew this earlier! Also your channel is truly 0 to f$&@ing warp speed in quality. A man that applies himself fully to what he sets out to do. Respectable.

Loving your content my friend. Keep doing what you're doing.

When I first saw project zomboid (like a year and a half ago) it was from a friend and just by the look of it I thought that I would never like this game. But I started watching project zomboid KZfaqrs actively about 3 months ago and seeing the stories they created inside this game showed me the creative beauty of the game because although there is no pre established story for your character, you can create it as you go and it's just so fun because it really makes you feel even more immersed playing as a character you feel like you know

Sprinters that can also open doors Is easily one of the most terrifying settings you can play with.

I very recently broke my record of most hours played in a zombie game recently with PZ. its previous holder was L4D2. it also had the advantage of being played since 2009, where as PZ i didnt pick up until 2022. yet i still finally hit 1300 hrs played. and beat l4d2 by 20 hrs. good times, would die again.

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Loving this new wave of game essays hitting my feed! Been looking to make my way deeper into survival games and this was definitely needed😂

I normally set up a checklist I have to do to "win" the game. One thing I love is completely clearing out a specific POI of all zombies. Example. If I have a pretty big run I'll say my end game is to completely clear out one of the cities. Or there are a lot of map mods like resorts with a LOT of zombies and I will work to clear the whole POI while also setting up stable but specific food and water sources. Things that are challenging but not making me pull my hair out. It makes it nice to set a narrative for yourself

I think the devs are working on a big NPC update with AI and stuff. So it will be a real living and surviving apocalyplse world.

Tough game sometimes but PZ is the most in-depth zombie survival game ever made. Ive been waiting over a decade for a legit zombie survival game to release and none have met my expectations. PZ is by far the closest. Now if only it was 3D.

Me and my friends are doing a zomboid world right now which is super modified. But we upped the difficulty to make sure we are under constant stress. The weather is always cold. The nights are freezing and dark, food and firearms are a lot harder to come across There’s so much you can modify. You can make it your own game

In the intro you explained your optimal zombie game and you basically explained state of decay 2. A severely underrated zombie game

My guy's uploading is slower than Joe Biden

My wife and I found your channel because of risk of rain. We both enjoyed your video, compared you to creators like Iron Pineapple and Mandalore in terms of good vibes and quality, and think you are going to pop off. Subbed here and on patreon. I'm excited to see more from you. Godspeed.

If you set all the zombies to sprinters in 7dtd that shit is so goddamn scary especially at night

This is the best review/synopsis of PZ I've seen and super entertaining on top of that. WELL done.

Im interested in this video and am showing yourube as such and i think others would also be interested in it.

The most important part of zomboid truly is the MOD community. Once you learn the basics in vanilla (at least like 40-80 hs) the mods in this game are FANTASTIC and will change the whole experience. You can even make it a whole new game with the right mods, or just enhance the vanilla aspects and even give it an endgame. And I don't even play multiplayer and have almost reached 1k hs ... it's a great game what can I say

To be fair having gun mods like Britta's makes the game unfathomably easy.

I used to be worried about the existential implications of my inevitable death, but now that I know I'll lose my inventory I'm straight up terrified.

worth trying out cdda as well if you enjoy zomboid

There was an older mobile game I played once and now I'm thinking back on it, it really reminded me of project zomboid, just without as many as advanced features and content project zomboid has, and it's a mobile game on the play store. I only remember it vividly, gathering parts to make a boat only to be betrayed (vibe checked by a magnum), walking around a small abandoned city that had an unoccupied military checkpoint in the 4 way intersection, holing up in some random sub-urban house with a can of beans in my cargo pants, does anyone remember the name of this game?

I have watched your risk of rain 2 video before, saw that there isn't much of videos and thought "Nice videos, wish there were more". Please continue on making content, you are great at doing what you're doing.

I love seeing you in my notifications when upload a new video

neglecting dayz much?

Zomboid is immersive to a horrifying degree. You will suffer and die. I spawned in a house with no weapons and suffered. It was amazing

5:35 - I can't open it! Why don't you try the other door!! Found that funnier that it really was! :D

Cataclysm dark days ahead is another really fucking weird one.

I put 50 hours in and I still barely know what I'm doing but I'm having a blast

Project Zomboid is probably by far the best zombie game on the market at the moment.

Wow, can't believe you don't count Yet Another Zombie Defense HD! Seriously though your content is great and im looking foward to your future videos 😊👍

If there's one thing I'll like about Project Zomboid, is that there are absolutely no continues and respawns to how you were before you died. You're dead when you're dead. All of what you learned the past hours grinding just ends up getting wiped out down the drain. Why is this a good thing? It taught me how to be less attached to things and losing them again and again means I can get back stronger from an empty slate. Every mistake, everything you've done that hasn't been done before, everything you learned before you died will come back to you. When you'll start a new game again, you'll ponder all of that into your head and deeply reflect so that the scenario of how you died doesn't happen again.

You can get your shit back. Your newly zomboided character has it. Your base/loot doesn't change

I still think back fondly on the character with good foraging skill who was about to head into two warehouses to get kitted with gear, but was hungry. So I foraged up a mushroom. His foraging wasn’t good enough to know it was poisonous. Not how you expect to go in the zombie apocalypse. 10/10, hundreds of hours played.

The beauty of project zomboid... it's open ended, you can make your own challenges. For example the save I'm working on now is a 5x zombie rate with no respawns and I'm traveling Kentucky in a camper (mod) with the goal of killing every zombie on the map XD

I struggleled with the controls first, but now I love the game. What really makes the difference are the mods.

I would love it if they included a story for single player. Like finding the cure or something? Maybe a secret lab in Louisville full of lab coat and military zombies. Maybe you have to go all over the map to uncover the location of the lab through broadcasts, messages, and notes. Of course, keep the one bite = death situation and turn the game into a bit of a roguelike deal where you uncover a bit more of the story and find your way to the cure. After all, the promise of a cure is one of the biggest plot points to any zombie survival scenario. Of course I don't think Indie Stone would be interested in implementing a story, I don't know much about the vision for this game but it seems like a story isn't intended.

Honestly super happy someone is saying that this game is different and offers something new to zombie games. Also for new players I highly recommend turning on multi hit, it means you can push and hit more than one zombie at a time, makes the game easier to start. I even still use it after quite a lot of hours put into the game since it makes fights a little more enjoyable since you're not having to micromanage so much

I thought to myself near the end of this video that I would love one of these style videos on Don't Starve. Just as I was typing it in, the end card popped up on your Don't Starve video.

Best how to guide for surviving the long term in project zomboid I found is the movie Wall-E, learn how to not want to survive, Learn to want to Live Death will come, there won’t be a way to stop it, stocks of supplies can only help to prolong you to the point of a death by neglect and loss of purpose. Instead you can make the most of the time you got; Find a cool suit Get the fancy car Burn up all the ammunition on all you see without a second thought Make a strip club a medieval style fort Find the secret gold Burn down Lewieville with nothing but Ovens and mollotov cocktails from the seat of an ambulance Leave the biggest mark on your world you can and live to the fullest or die the most empty

Well there is one game that this relates too and it's called the last stand aftermath.

How dare you diss How to survive, that shit was banging on my xbox 360

i think dead matter was supposed to be the only competition but that died, now we have vein, the spiritual successor.

8:28 "i dont want to lose all of my sh@t" btw you can go to your files and like dont starve together, get back one day earlier

The game is pretty unforgiving but not actually that hard in principle. It's just a lot of tiny things that you have to learn, each individual one being not so bad but it just amounts to a huge overwhelming pile when you start out. The devs are currently working on the big crafting overhaul and hunting & wild animals, which will be the groundwork for the NPC updates, which will include human NPCs, factions and settlements. Vintage Story is kinda similar, although a little less forgiving unless you play hardcore. It's basically TerraFirmaCraft, which was a complete and somewhat realistic overhaul mod for Minecraft, but as its own a standalone game.

Videos like this really make me wish PZ had an option to turn off that cone of vision effect so I could play it without getting very confused very quickly

Just wait until the new Build 42 update comes out, theyre nearly doubling the size of the map, adding ai wild and farm animals, all sorts of crafting, and npc survivors to interact with. This big update will have more potential plot and reason to survive to explore and interact

i learned the game by adjusting sandbox settings to be in my favor, (all i did was make zombie pop low) and then i increased the population to normal after i learned the game, i can survive between 10 and 30 days :D

dont you DARE diss How to Survive that game is a CLASSIC!

I love the little mention of SIREN around 1:30 lol, genuinely a terrifying experience

You play and sound as if you’re having so much fun. It’s a great take, I feel like I always have to play the long game